DVD Drive problem

The DVD drive in my laptop has been giving some troubles for a while. At the beginning everything was okay. But for the last 1 month the drive had been reading the disks rather slowly. I mean, when I put a dvd inside the drive the drive takes a lot of tym to detect the disk inside almost 36s anf after dat everything is normal. And now, for the last 3 days the drive is not reading anything. When I put the dvd inside the drive it stutters for a while making a few noises trying to read, but fails to read at all. After 3 or 4 mins all noises stop and the disk inside stops spinning.
Please help me a.s.a.p.
Thank you in advance.
Answer #1
Your DVD drive may be faulty, how old is it? Try updating your drivers, if that doesn’t work it is most likely a hardware issue.
Answer #2
think you may have to get a new one!!!!
Answer #3
It is just 4 months old
Answer #4
Re Flash the firmware on the drive and or boot from a disc at BIOS ie OS Disc and see how long it takes it generally takes a few minutes to boot to the config menu if it takes much longer you know its a fault drive cause youll be eliminate OS Drivers/settings
Answer #5
The drive is not reading any disk. So, it won’t make any difference if I insert an OS disk
Answer #6
Try once of those DVD drive cleaners… its a disk with a small brush on it to clean the lens when it rotates… might work.
Sounds like your drive is just croakin tho!
Answer #7
okay, i will… thanks again.